IN THE MELTING POT and BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE

FROM SAMPATH’S DESK:

 

IN THE MELTING POT and BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE:

 

 

IN THE MELTING POT:

 

Meaning:

 

If something is in the melting pot, it is constantly changing, so that you do not know what will finally happen to it – not yet certain or finally conclusive or decided – still changing or likely to change – it is a place or situation in which people or ideas of different kinds gradually get changed or mixed together – in a process of change and with an uncertain outcome - some countries are made of people who are almost all the same in terms of race, religion, and culture. Then there are also places like the United States, where there are many different types of people co-exist despite differences – manage to peacefully live together as one nation

 

Example sentences:

 

Our plans are still IN THE MELTING POT.

 

He was disappointed. The whole business has been put INTO THE MELTING POT again.

 

Their fate is still IN THE MELTING POT, and much suffering may lie ahead.

 

It looked like our team was winning, but then everything went back INTO THE MELTING POT.

 

The future of that railway project is still IN THE MELTING POT.

 

IN A MELTING POT, differences become less important than unity.

 

 

BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE:

 

(It’s almost like the idiom ‘BETWEEN THE DEVIL AND THE DEEP SEA’)

 

Meaning:

 

If you are caught BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE, you are in a difficult situation where you have to choose between two equally unpleasant courses of action - faced with two equally dangerous or difficult choices or circumstances – having two very bad choices – in a very difficult situation - facing a hard decision – having two equally unpleasant and unacceptable options

 

Example sentences:

 

Trying to please two supervisors (bosses) is like being BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

 

I hate my job but cannot quit owing to my economic condition. I am stuck BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

 

I can’t make up my mind whose side I am on; I am caught BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

 

He was caught BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. If he accepted the offer, he would have to work long hours with low pay, if he didn’t, he would lose his livelihood.

 

Our company was caught BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE. If we made the deal, we would make a monetary loss and if we didn’t, we would lose our reputation.

 

They are both my brothers! I can’t go against either of them. I am stuck BETWEEN A ROCK AND A HARD PLACE.

 

 

Proverbs:

 

தடிக்கு மிகுந்த மிடாவானால் என்ன செய்யலாம்? (மிடா = Pot)

If the pot is too strong for the stick, what can be done?

 

தாம்பு அறுதல், தோண்டியும் பொத்தல்.

The cord is rotten and the water pot is fractured.

 

மலையை மலை தாங்கும், மண்ணாங்கட்டி தாங்குமா?

A rock supports a rock, can a sod do so?

 

பிள்ளையும் கிள்ளித் தொட்டிலும் ஆட்டுகிறதா?

Do you rock the cradle, while pinching the child?



(R.SAMPATH)

19/10/2023

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